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2 HUM' hngau^ M turn oil id^Aiotiad wigmaL * OtHbm nfiMnier,
3 lijr<liff the gnater p8E|;!«cfeiiBbdem Ftiiriiiii [ biit>floine«f thMe fMM
4 faitwdiidrf intdtlietlMr luguage &om-tlifi''Z and manj mora
5 fianr^-lJMt 'Pciilflvee). wliaer'tf ymd .Tiarnhtr viere wovdi of tlftMd ln>
6 gnagHi-iMie euafiaytA m inbdMirBBftiaii*' 'Spnie of lliei^'Znidiiid
7 Md^fae-woidi flftt^ homrrer, comMtkm to iibt SImment, dw'.tlme
8 ImguflgiB httriiig a great affinity ; ami aome ivorda abo oooir, whkli
9 «e W befbnbndm ShnamtdoDfl^ iaa do fire 'or ah woida of tba
10 BinloBftaiitaee laiigittga^> it ia inobabfe aome FtanjatdMe'imida vf^^
11 aiao be detected if Ifas lkt were oompared with a VocabuKu^'Of tlMt
12 ku^^nage. Not one word of the two hundred nnd eig^rteoD has the
13 amalleat appearance of beiiig deducible horn the Uebieir or CbaMnc,
14 €reorgia» or Amouan. •
15 The Afghauns use the Persian alpbabefc* and generally write ia the
16 Nuahk diaraeter. • As thej have aome adundi) which are' not repre«>
17 •aoted by any Persian letters, they express them by adding paiticulaor
18 poipti or other Boai^ to the neareat Pegaian tetter>*
19 ■ ■ f ■ I ■ ■ i , .. —
20 friios for the purpose t had m view ; and Ibr the Shanscrit^ aidk word was compared
21 with all th<7 ntimer^us srnoitytns in the Amerdosh, which www AMd>to aie bjr » Ppndilik
22 I Ivtve i^yen part of my vocahnhuy,^ tt^ 4ppeBiUx (i:^^ ■ .
23 * SBnee I wiote the above, I bsve had an opirartunity of examfaifaig • liat of about one
24 hundrctl Cunllsh wortli, and T find anioii^ tlicni five ofthf luindred ant] t: n nhich I huve
25 mentioned tt« orii^'in J 'Htghaon words, besides several common to tlie Curdish and Persian
26 both lan^ uagi . I n gi et that I have not an opportmuty of following up the {nrdstigatioa.
27 • ♦ These sounds are the hard JJ, 1\ and Bj and tlte Csh ul tlui bhaxMcrit. The
28 Vanvile kttani in P^iahtqo '•eem to. ber thp Qkm (the MWid of wlMi cannot bo
29 exprt">se<l in Kngllsli characters, but which has a resoni! ' inn to the North inn berland
30 Beer\ and IQuy^ which has the power of 2 in azure, or ^ in ocier. Such is the fond-
31 n<»3 of the A^faatms finr dwae letters, Ast they often chai^ die of words adopted
32 from the Persian into Chains, and the Zt (and evoj the M*) into SSIfc Uli^ alsO
33 olUii change F into /', D into T, and even D into L; and they frequently turn O
34 into J^M, as lloz (day) liwuz. The eastern A^hauns again have some pennutatioos
35 pecnlinr to Aenudves, *dntt they change Zk uito Gt and 51 into Kk* lliese dun^gcn
36 sometimes disguise a word in such a manner, as to render it a matter of difficulty to
37 £soover its e^ymologjr. Nobody woold tusfect that Okm^ the eastern A%h8tiDee for
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